Sarah Roza reveals all about her new man: 'We're taking things slow'

The Married At First Sight star debuted her new man, James Stephens, at the Men With Breast Intentions charity gala on Friday night, and she looked absolutely smitten.

"We've been on four dates together so far and are taking things really slowly," the 39-year-old exclusively tells TheFIX. "We're not 'officially' boyfriend and girlfriend, but still just enjoying each other's company at this very early stage."

Sarah says she and James have been acquainted for five years.

"Our families know each other," she explains. "We met through mutual friends and we're each other's footy buddy. We are both raving mad fans of Essendon Football Club so we would always catch up with a group of other footy fans and all go in and watch the footy matches together."

Despite their long friendship, she says their relationship has always been platonic -- until now.

"We've never dated each other in the past before as we were both in long-term, committed relationships with other people at the time," Sarah says. "We just were never single at the same time together until now.

"James was always simply a good family friend to me and he was always a well respected and very well-liked gent around those that knew us both. "